718 pages 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 700-718)

Fiction. Baxter's Procrustes / Charles W. Chesnutt -- Karintha ; Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer -- Common Meter / Rudolph Fisher -- A Summer Tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- Tales of Simple. Foreword: Who Is Simple? ; Feet Live Their Own Life ; Temptation ; Bop ; Census ; Coffee Break ; Cracker Prayer ; Promulgations / Langston Hughes -- The Man Who Lived Underground / Richard Wright -- In Darkness and Confusion / Ann Petry -- Invisible Man (Prologue) / Ralph Ellison -- McDougal / Frank London Brown -- To Da-duh, In Memoriam / Paule Marshall -- Neighbors / Diane Oliver -- Autobiography. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Chapters 1, 6, 7, and 10) / Frederick Douglass -- Along This Way (Selected Episodes) / James Weldon Johnson -- The Ethics of Living Jim Crow / Richard Wright -- No Day of Triumphs (Chapter 1: Sections 1, 5, and 7) / J. Saunders Redding -- Autobiographical Notes / James Baldwin -- Why I Returned / Arna Bontemps -- The Autobiography of Malcom X (Chapter 1) / Malcolm X -- "I'll Never Escape the Ghetto" / Stanley Sanders -- Poetry. We Wear the Mask ; A Death Song ; Sympathy ; A Negro Love Song / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Song of the Smoke ; A Litany at Atlanta / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The Creation / James Weldon Johnson -- The Daily Grind ; The World Is a Mighty Ogre ; A Negro Peddler's Song ; The Old Repair Man ; Rulers ; The Scarlet Woman ; Tired : Aunt Jane Allen / Fenton Johnson -- Baptism ; If We Must Die ; Outcast ; The Negro's Tragedy ; America ; The White City ; The White House / Claude McKay -- Harvest Song ; Song of the Son ; Cotton Song ; Brown River, Smile / Jean Toomer -- Yet Do I Marvel ; A Song of Praise ; A Brown Girl Dead ; From the Dark Tower ; Incident : Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song ; Three Epitaphs: ; For My grandmother ; For Paul Laurence Dunbar ; For A Lady I know / Countee Cullen -- An Ex-Judge at the Bar ; Dark Symphony ; Psi / Melvin B. Tolson -- Kid Stuff ; Nigger: A Chant for Children / Frank Horne -- Sister Lou ; Memphis Blues ; Slim in Hell ; Remembering Nat Turner ; Southern Road ; Southern Cop ; The Young Ones ; The Ballad of Joe Meek ; Strong Men / Sterling A. Brown -- A Note of Humility ; Gethsemane ; Southern Mansion ; My Heart Has Known Its Winter ; Nocturne At Bethesda ; A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; The Day-Breakers / Arna Bontemps -- Afro-American Fragment ; As I grew Older ; Dream Variations ; Daybreak In Alabama ; Dream Boogie ; Children's Rhymes ; Theme for English B ; Harlem ; Same In Blues ; Ballad of the Landlord / Langston Hughes -- Four Glimpses of Night ; I Sing No New Songs ; Robert Whitmore ; Flowers of Darkness / Frank Marshall Davis -- Between the World and Me / Richard Wright -- Tour 5 ; On the Coast of Maine ; Figure ; In Light Half Nightmare and Half Vision ; Market ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues ; Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday ; Middle Passage ; Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- Guitar ; Black Mother Praying ; Drunken Lover ; The Reunion ; Jonathan's SOng ; Yardbird's Skull ; Sailors on Leave / Owen Dodson -- For My People / Margaret Walker -- The Artist's and Models' Ball ; The Mother ; The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon ; The Children of the Poor ; We Real Cool ; The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Southern Road ; Legacy: My South ; Booker T. and W.E.B. ; The Idiot / Dudley Randall -- Blues and Bitterness / Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- The Night Rains Hot Tar ; On Listening to the Spirituals ; Grief Streams Down My Chest ; The Unknown / Lance Jeffers -- Native ; Her Story ; The Race Question / Naomi Long Madgett -- Coventry ; Status Symbol ; The Emancipation of George-Hector (a colored turtle) ; My Man Let Me Pull Your Coat ; Black Jam for Dr. Negro / Mari Evans -- Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; The Invention of Comics ; Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today ; The Death of Nick Charles ; The Bridge / Leroi Jones -- Literary Criticism. The Souls of Black Fold (Chapters 1 and 14) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The New Negro ; The Negro In American Culture / Alain Locke -- How "Bigger" Was Born / Richard Wright -- A Century of Negro Portraiture in American Literature / Sterling A. Brown -- Many Thousands Gone / James Baldwin -- Three Papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers (March, 1959). Integration and Race Literature / Arthur P. Davis ; The Negro Writers and His Relationship to His Roots / J. Saunders Redding ; Writers: Black and White / Langston Hughes -- The Negro's Image of the Universe as Reflected in His Fiction / Blyden Jackson -- The Origin and Growth of Afro-American Literature / John Henrik Clarke -- That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview with Ralph Ellison / Richard G. Stern -- James Baldwin ... in Conversation / Dan Georgakas -- Frank London Brown / Sterling Stuckey -- The Negro Dramatist's Image of the Universe, 1920-1960 / Darwin T. Turner -- Ethnic Impact in American Literature / George E. Kent -- Black Criterion / Clarence Major

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